Kenneth Warner

Kenneth Charles Harman Warner was Bishop of Edinburgh from 1947 to 1961.

Warner was born on 6 April 1891 and educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Oxford. His first career as a solicitor was interrupted by wartime service with the Army Cyclist Corps at the end of which he was awarded the DSO. Ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1924, he began his career with a curacy at St George’s Ramsgate. After this he was a chaplain in the Royal Air Force flying on active service in his fifties then Provost of St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow. In 1938 he became Archdeacon of Lincoln before his ordination to the episcopate. He died on 18 March 1983.